Modifications

A tattoo is a marking made by inserting dark, indelible ink into the dermis layer of the skin to change the pigment for decorative or other reasons. Tattoos on humans are a type of decorative body modification, while tattoos on animals are most commonly used for identification or branding.

At underground parties, it’s not unusual to see people in novelty contact lenses, which can re-create the golden glare of a tiger or the blue-in-blue of a Dune Fremen. Some body-modders, however, wish to have their eyes permanently colored — and are experimenting with a technique that makes this possible.

There are all sorts of different types of body modification. Basically, anything that you do to your body to alter the way that it naturally appears is a body modification, so it includes body building, hair dye, and plastic surgery.

People have been modifying their bodies for a variety of reasons for thousands of years--reasons like aesthetic enhancement, spiritual enlightenment, signifying social status, and marking major life milestones.

With all the different types of body modifications, it’s easy to see how the origins of tattoos, piercings, and more bizarre body mods, like earlobe stretching, tooth filing, and neck elongation, can't be traced back to a single continent, country, or culture.

Body modification is the deliberate alteration of the body for non-medical reasons such as rites of passage, aesthetic reasons, religious reasons, and to show self expression. Body modification is a term that is generally associated with tattooing and piercing but can also include branding, scarification, surgical implants, and a number of lesser known procedures and practices.

Exrtreme body mods: from Eyeball Tattoos to 3D-art implants, eight body modifications to blow your mind. Being unique takes some pain.

Body Modifications - This top list of insane body modifications is full of extremely transformed people. Piercings are no longer simply for the ears and tattoos.

Body modification includes anything from piercings and tattoos all the way to surgical augmentations such as implants and injections.

Extreme body modification: Devotees say tattoos, piercings, and skin implants, like those seen here, are beautiful - and that the sometimes painful procedures used to create them can be emotionally and even spiritually uplifting.

Body modification (or body alteration) is the deliberate altering of the human anatomy or human physical appearance.

Tattoo, skin implant and body piercing fans from around the world have gathered in Caracas for a four-day event celebrating extreme body modification at the Venezuela Tattoo Expo.

Tired of your boring old body? Wish you could mutilate it, and stick a bunch of weird shit everywhere? You're in luck, friend! There is a growing industry dedicated to decorating your body with painful, grotesque trinkets that will frighten every stranger you meet.

Body modifications can seem fun and sexy, but they also carry real risks, including infection, loss of vision, pain - and regret.